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From the Archive

Louis Feuillade: Master of Melodrama

By Richard Roud
November 1, 1976
With Olivier Assaya’s Irma Vep deconstructing the very idea of the serial, revisit Richard Roud’s 1976 essay on Louis Feuillade, the man behind the original Les Vampires

Notes on Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors

By Sergei Parajanov
September 1, 1968
The master filmmaker on the making of his 1965 breakthrough

Film, the Rival of Theatre

By Edith Laurie
September 1, 1963
A report from the International Drama Conference in Edinburgh

Notes from the Venice Film Festival

By Edith Laurie
September 27, 1962
Seventy-five films in sixteen days, and the best of them Italian